03 January 2012

Very disturbing news coming from Kenya. The East African nation's new LGBT magazine Identity reports that college students and unemployed men have been forced into sex trafficking. Young men are reportedly being lured to Gulf states with the promise of high-paying jobs ... but ultimately become sex slaves.

The report alleges that gay and bisexual men are lured from university campuses – particularly from Kenyatta University – with promises of high-paying jobs and then transported to labor as sex workers for men in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

According to the magazine, due to Kenya’s soaring unemployment rate, the men are easily fooled into this trap. The publication interviewed one Kenyan victim who was promised a job in Qatar but ended up suffering sexual abuse.

Qatar specifically, has no laws against human trafficking, which has made cracking down on the practice nearly impossible. “Qatar is a transit and destination country for men and women subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced labor and, to a much lesser extent, forced prostitution,” the US State Department stated in a recent report.

"They had alcohol and some were dressed up like women," Philippines embassy Vice Consul Roussel Reyes said. Both drinking and cross-dressing are forbidden under Saudi Arabia's conservative Islam based sharia laws, and both could bring up to six months in prison and lashes. None were charged with homosexual acts, a much more serious charge under Saudi law, Reyes said. The men have all been released to their employers while formal charges are drawn up, he added."

[Choudary] said such a regime was the only way to fix the country's
ills. Under it, adulterers and homosexuals would be killed by
stoning. Asked if that would include anybody - even a Cabinet minister
such as Business Secretary Lord Mandelson - Choudary responded with an
astonishing diatribe.

He said: 'If a man likes another man, it can happen, but if
you go on to fulfil your desire, if it is proved, then there is a
punishment to follow. You don't stone to death unless there are four
eyewitnesses. It is a very stringent procedure.

'There are some people who are attracted to donkeys but that does not mean it is right.'

The hateful cleric says not all gays would be killed. After being educated about the "evils" of homosexuality, they would only be stoned if they still confessed to a same-sex relationship or having same-sex desires. How very generous of him.

Choudary's extremism may seem like a joke in the West but the consequences are real. In recent months, suspected gays have been condemned in Nigeria, and, executed in Islamic fundamentalist nations such as Saudi Arabia and Iran. Uganda's leading Islamic cleric has also called for exiling and/or executing gays.

Choudary's hate-filled dogma was profiled last year by Christiane Amanpour on CNN.

04 February 2009

The terrorist masterminds behind Al-Qaeda are reportedly raping young men to coerce them into becoming suicide bombers. The intense social stigma, fear of being exposure, and, the fear of more penetration leaves the young Muslim men prepared to die.

The warped new tactic was revealed by a reformed Algerian militant. Abu Baçir
El Assimi said: “The sexual act on young recruits aged between 16 to 19 was
a means to urge them to commit suicide operations.”

A 22-year-old had suffered sexual injuries before being shot dead on a suicide
mission in Tademaït, Algeria, three weeks ago. Samples taken from his body
are being analysed in a bid to identify his torturer.

Ennahar Online additionally reports "a large tear in the anus" of the
22-year-old Algerian terrorist, which apparently confirms the sexual abuse.

Rape and homosexual acts are punishable by death under Sharia law. Fundamentalist Islamic states such as Saudi Arabia and Iran have publicly executed men accused of being homosexual, or, accused of engaging in sexual relations with other men.

The Al-Qaeda terrorist movement has been in existence since the late 1990s. Terrorist cells operating in the United States, Western Europe and have been responsible for a number of horrific and spectacular suicide attacks, most notably the attacks on New York and Washington DC on September 11th 2001. Al-Qaeda is currently linked to the insurgency in Algeria.

19 December 2008

Liberty and freedom for all—just not the gays. The United States becomes the lone major western nation to
refuse to sign an historic United Nations declaration that affirms gay rights and seeks to decriminalize homosexuality.

The unprecedented declaration won the support of 66 countries in the United Nations General Assembly. The United States—represented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and UN Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, seen above—"refused to support the non-binding measure, as did Russia, China, the Roman Catholic Church and members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The Holy See’s observer mission issued a statement saying that the declaration “challenges existing human rights norms."

The declaration, sponsored by France with broad support in Europe
and Latin America, condemned human rights violations based on
homophobia, saying such measures run counter to the universal
declaration of human rights.

“How can we tolerate the fact that
people are stoned, hanged, decapitated and tortured only because of
their sexual orientation?” said Rama Yade, the French state secretary
for human rights, noting that homosexuality is banned in nearly 80
countries and subject to the death penalty in at least six.

The United States delegation could not sign the declaration for a very simple reason: There are currently no federal protections for gays, lesbians and transgenders. Same sex marriage is legal only in two states, Connecticut and Massachusetts. In more than half of the states, employers and landlords are free to
discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. Add this to the growing list of reasons why we need to pass ENDA and federal hate crime protections.

Our neighbors to the north and south—Canada and Mexico—signed this declaration. It's a sad day when the world's largest democracy chooses sides with rabidly, anti-gay human rights violators—such as Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, China and Russia—who claimed the resolution threatened to "normalize" pedophilia and other "deplorable acts. Shameful

09 August 2006

· The cast of Noah's Arc covers the latest Next. Patrik-Ian Polk asks, "Why aren’t these guys on the cover of Genre and Instinct and Out? I was told by the publisher of one of the national magazines that when they put black faces on their cover they don’t sell."

· Saudi Arabia is finally confronting its hidden HIV/AIDS problem. After many years of denial, the Ministry of Health "announced that more than 10,000 people in Saudi Arabia were HIV-positive or had AIDS." Many experts think the numbers are higher. Saudi citizens enjoy free medical care and expensive anti-retroviral drugs without charge,but, "more than three-quarters of the reported HIV cases are of foreign residents. Foreigners living here found to be HIV-positive are typically imprisoned and then deported." Gays report living in "constant fear of being found out and attacked."